Wichita eagle., 1887-01-19
CURE BY FAITH.
To the Eiitor OF the Eagle.
a marry of about 3o,o,

| a party OF about a dozen ladies met at the
residence of Mrs. s. S Davidson, Thursday
afternoon, to talk over and consider the sub
Ject of Christian science After an hour or
two OF pleasant and, We hope, profitable con-
tne dining room and partook of a neat tea
served by Miss Berdine Davidson
Among other things that were read and
discussed was the following by Mrs. W r.
Tucker:
Dear Sisters:
Christ said "He that believeth on me, the
works that do shall he do Also and greater
works than these shall he do, because l go
unto the Father" He said: Il am the vine
We are the branches, as the branches cannot
bear fruit of them selves, except 1T abide in
the VINE; no more can We except ye abide in
Christ: Christ Is the trutl. He is the very
image of God S substance And the apostle
says: I'VE are changed into the same image
from glory to glory" Christ said: Il am in
the Rather. Ii we are in Christ we are i'll
tie Father also. Christ recognized 40 power,
no mind but God: so we, in order 10 abide in
Christ IN order to be in the ''irnage of God, y
Will have to come into the understanding
that there Is no power, no mind, no creator
but God. There is only one creator and
His works are perfect" The apostle
says that In Him we live and move and
haze our being" and the book of Isa says: Il
an God and there is none else" So there is
no power or mind 20 make sin, sickness or
death, hence surely they in truth are not
made. The man Of flesh and blood is not the
Image OF God. In Christ (truth) there is no.
SIN, and certainly no sickness or death This
mortal life must be the shadow; the spiritual
the true life. If this is the shadow, what
must the beauties of the true life be? Death
Is spoken of in the Bible as the valley and
OF suffering and darkness. Is & shadow VIII,
should not mortal man, discord and disease
be recognized also as a shadow? Christ re-
buked sickness; in other words he reDroved
1t, and 1t was gone, for Christ-truth ana
hie-was not in it. Our Master said: The
maid Is not dead" but she was as dead no
doubt to the mortal eve as any one ever was.
He acknowledged not the power of of Satan.
because he knew that the devil and all his
works was a lie and only mortal and tran
>ient belief that will be destroyed
The apostle says: ''Since then the children |
are sharers in fe7h and blood, He also Him
self in like manner Dartook of the same: that |
Trough death He might bring to naught |
''m that had the p 'wer of death that is the |
devil" (New version) SO it looks to me |
fr pm my reading of the Bible thst the ''old |
SERPENT" and all his works are finally to lie
brought down 10 nothingness, for there is
nothing besides Col and HIS works
Aud now, dear sisters, | would not have
you think that | claim to apprehend the
ruth as 1t is III the perfect maa; only per
laps have glimpse of the truth; but in
he language of Paul, Il press on, if so be
nay appIehend that for which | was appre-
nended by Christ Jesus" aud he further
tdded: Brethren | count not myself to have
yet apprehended; butone thug do, forget
ing 'he things which are behind, and strtch-
ug forward to the things which are before.
press Oh toward the goal unto the prize of
he high calling in Christ Jesus II Paul
ne of the most gifted ami spiritual men the
world has ever known, ana with all his un-
Outstanding, claimed rot to have appre-
lended, why should We doubt or contra,:ic.
IhriSt's teachings, simply because we do not
pprehend the truth as it is in Christ for
ito be absent from the body ana 10 .e pres
mt with the Lord is nov superficial; u is
lot easily gTaspei by mortal man. But now
While through darkness and ignorance,
re separated from the life that is lite in
eed, we should LAY aside every weight, and
he sin that doth SO easily beset US" and
trive TO follow the footsteps OF our q at
'eacher. and SOW seed, not to the flesh, but
0 the spirit, tnat We be cast not into a sIu
reater darkness, but cons into the marvel
Us light of the children of God